CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
Hollywood has been quick to get moving on the production of a semi-biographical blockbuster based on the last week’s news cycle.
This comes as American law enforcement agencies reveal the name of the most wanted man in America.
Both by law enforcement agencies, and the single women who have a thing for anyone willing to risk their lives and freedom to disrupt the multi-billion dollar health insurance cartels.
Maryland man, Luigi Mangione, has been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, after assassinating him in the middle of Manhattan last Thursday.
After nearly a week of drip-feeding information Mangione’s identity to the opublic, the New York Police say the most revealing CCTV image of the shooter was snapped while he was flirting with a Starbucks waitress, in the midst of his meticulously planned assassination.
Luigi Mangione has since become a sex icon, and the fact that he has become a sex icon also means that the wider Italian-American community are willing to claim him as one of their own.
However, it gets more Italian than that. It turns out that Luigi Mangione was spurred to murder Brian Thompson over the lack of respect shown to his mother, who’s ailing health appears to have been gleefully exploited by UnitedHealthcare.
With the shooter clearly not being treated like an antagonist by a similarly frustrated American public, the only way this story could translate to film is as a romantic comedy.
And what a fantastic rom-com it would make.
Hollywood starlet Sydney Sweeney has already been cast as the unknowing but smitten Starbucks waitress, while Aussie hunk Jacob Elordi is tipped to play the shooter.
Jonah Hill has been reportedly considered to play the CEO – and Oliver Stone really, really wants to direct.
